NGC 4283

NGC 4283

NGC 4283 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 50 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 18,000 ly, about 18% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,058 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
50 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
18k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
1,058 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 50 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4283 as it looked roughly 50 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.

Nearest galaxies
NGC 4251Lenticular1.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4173Barred spiral2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4203Elliptical3.9 million ly
apart
IC 3215Spiral4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4670Barred spiral5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4525Spiral5.6 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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